Achenblog: March 1, 2009 - March 7, 2009

Now I'm worried about the rich. This is a huge turnaround. As you know, resenting the rich has been my major hobby for years. it gives me something around which to organize my day, spiritually. But I now see...

I'm giving up on watching the stock market. I'm watching the thermometer for the next few days. I'm atwitter (and fyi, I was atwitter before Twitter was cool) about the springlike temps allegedly blowing into town this weekend, heralding...

What a splash Rush Limbaugh made with that speech Saturday. I thought it was, at a purely technical level, rambling, sloppy, self-indulgent, demagogic and anachronistic, but it is conceivable that I was not his target audience. The crowd went...

The president thinks we're wimps here in the nation's capital because we shut everything down with the first flake of snow. And there's an element of truth to that: We sometimes have paralytic flurries. But here's a thought: Maybe...

[My story on CPAC in today's paper.] Same old hotel on the park, same ballrooms, same long lines down the corridor to hear the big-name speakers, but otherwise the landscape looks radically different for this year's Conservative Political Action...